A Kurd killed by SSF

Qhomtoreh Village- Feb.5, 2011
Moukariyan News Agency reported that a Kurd resident from Qhotareh Village, Jafar Sharifi, was killed when a SSF shot at him. Mr. Sharifi was married and had a child.

What is behind the curtain?

Tehran- Feb.5, 2011
The execution of one of the high ranking commanders of IRGC in Ahwaz, Abdolreza Qorabat 52, was as a warning to the other commanders of this force that are keeping distance from the Establishment of Velayat-e-Faghieh.
Qorabat was executed at Karoon Prison in Ahwaz on Jan. 26 accused of ‘claiming to be God and having connection with Imam Zaman’.
Being with IRGC from 1980 to 2002, Qorabat was arrested on 2007 in the root from Hamidieh to Ahwaz for the third time and was kept there until the time of his execution.
His family was not permitted to see him before execution. His body was buried by the agents of Intelligence Ministry at night in a place called Broomir before Ahwaz’s Chaharshir, far from his birth place.
A number of IRGC’s commanders had tried to prevent his execution but Sadegh Larijani The head of regime’s Judiciary insisted on the execution.

Free Hashem Khastar

Tehran-Feb.4, 2011
Teacher’s Guild Society wrote an open letter to Mullah Sadegh Larijani demanding the immediate freedom of Hashem Khastar, enchained teacher.
Mr. Khastar has recently gone under a heavy operation and by the order of his physicians he should have stayed in CCU but instead he was immediately transferred to prison.
Khastar was chosen as a candidate by people of Azerbaijan to be their mayor after the anti- monarchy revolution but he didn’t accept it and continued his teaching in his birthplace Birjand.
During the time he is serving his term (6 years term) he has also lost his sight to some percent.
Khastar is 57 years old.

Two political prisoners savagely tortured

Karaj- Feb.6, 2011
It is about 10 days that Farhang and Shahram Poor Mansouri two political prisoners who had been recently transferred to the newly formed ward for political prisoners at Gohardahst (Rajeeshahr) Prison have been transferred to solitary cells and went under severe torture.
In protest the two went on dry hunger strike.
Farhang has been so severely tortured that his left big toe, fingers and nose is broken.
The torturers at these solitary cells are: Ali Mohammadi, deputy of the prison; Faraji, deputy of prison’s intelligence; Reza Torabi, the head of prison’s inspection; Mirza Aghaee, a Pasdar (IRGC member) officer and prison’s torturer. Some other Pasdars such as Amini and Salmani also participate in the tortures.

Intelligence Ministry: take his kidney out

Tehran- Feb.5, 2011
Hussein Ronaghi Maleki political prisoner in security ward of 350 of Evin Prison is in critical condition due to infection of his kidney.
Though even the physicians of the prison’s infirmary have said that the problem can be solved by laser therapy but the henchmen of Intelligence Ministry have ordered his kidney be taken out.
The family of Hussein Ronaghi Maleki had complained from two members of IRGC and they in turn have built up a fake case against Hussein and his family.
Maleki is a blogger and human rights activist. He has been tortured for a year in solitary cells to accept to interview but he didn’t and then he was condemned to 15 years of imprisonment along with corporal punishment by the criminal judge Pir Abbassi in Branch 26 of so-called Revolutionary Court of regime.